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Born in Vancouver, I am a B.C. girl at heart. As a child I lived in Kitimat. My father taught at Kildala Elementary School. Our family eventually moved to Kamloops where I finished high school at Westsyde Secondary (a proud Westsyde Whunda!). After a few years at community college and U.B.C., I went back east for a B.Sc. from McGill University. My major was Nutrition. I also have a Masters of Science from l'Université of Montréal.

During the 1990s, I worked for the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) on programs for maternal and infant nutrition in Guatemala (1990-1995) and Indonesia (1996-2000). I also did some food aid planning for the U.N. High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR). Before that, I had worked with Algonquin people to prevent diabetes in their communities in the north part of Quebec.

During 2002 and 2003, I was Corporate Development Manager for North America for NUTRECO, one of the world's largest producers of farmed salmon and fish feed.

In 2006, I prepared a submission to the Special Committee on Sustainable Aquaculture of the B.C. Government. While preparing that submission, I unexpectedly came across a grant for an "antifarming camapign" with "science messages" and "earned media." When I raised questions about this grant from the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation, four grants for a multi-million dollar campaign against salmon farming were quietly re-written by the Moore foundation. While going through the tax returns of American charitable foundations to try and figure out who was funding the campaign against salmon farming, I happened to notice many grants for a "Tar Sands Campaign" (see here also). That's when I started to write about the campaign against Alberta oil.

If you would like to read more about how I ended up going from UNICEF to salmon farming, and started writing this blog, please click here.

As I tried to take a look at the salmon farming controversy from a marketing perspective - a point of view that I missed when I worked in the industry - I wrote two papers about the so-called 'science' about PCBs in farmed salmon, and sea lice - and the money behind it.

Since the fall of 2010, I have been writing a series of articles published in The Financial Post.

I reside in North Vancouver and can be reached at vivian.krause@mac.com or @FairQuestions, on Twitter.